Meet the Kinect: An Introduction to Programming Natural User Interfaces (Technology in Action)

Very basic. Useful for the "what's a Kinect" level user, but rapidly became inadequate. A careful google search would be as useful.

I am very far from understanding the code, but can say that "Meetthe Kinect" book can be useful for every body who can read. It is one of not many tech books that reading will not send you into sleep mode.The authors did extremely great job in research of history and present of Microsoft Kinect and similar 3d space scanning technology.What ever your profession are teacher, doctor, animator or scientist this book is great way to understand new technology. Best of it even if you don't understand code and skip few pages with code examples, you will not only understand what Kinect is about, but by the end of the book you'll imagine how to use Kinect in your profession.And if you plan to start code for Kinect research where to start is already done for you. Kinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures!Xbox 360 4GB ConsoleKinect Sensor with Kinect Adventures!Xbox 360 4GB Console

You might have heard about the Kinect. You might be already using it for a project. You might not even know what a Kinect is. In any of these cases this is a book you should get now. Without burying you in tons of geek-speak this book gives you a great overview of the cutting edge of this soon to be ubiquitous technology. As you will find out from this book it's not JUST about the Kinect and this technology goes far beyond gaming. If you have any interest in the future of computing pick up a copy of this! We will all be interfacing with computers in a whole new way.